When you bought your home, you probably hired a Home Inspector to review your potential purchase before signing the contract. Or, if you've ever sold your home, you might have hired an inspector to make sure the house was ready to go on the market.But, here's a tip: you can hire a home inspector to save you money... even if you're not buying or selling a house. How? Your home is getting older and older by the day. Things are settling, rotting, weakening, bending, and cracking all over the place. And you would never know it -- until there's a problem. Once there is a problem, you have to call a professional to come out and fix it.
Now, we at ConstructionDeal.com are here to help you find those service professionals when something goes wrong. But, when you have to hire a company in an emergency situation, you could really end up paying a lot of money to get things fixed.
A home inspector could come to your house, review anything and everything from your foundation to your roof -- or even just areas that you're concerned about, like your attic, insulation, windows and doors, and more. The inspector can give you a full report, which is a detailed and objective analysis of what work might need to be done. Also consider that this inspector has nothing to gain from any information provided so you can be sure that what he or she is telling you is accurate.
An example of how hiring an inspector could save you money. Say you notice a long crack in the paint in a room at the back of your house. Or a door leading out of that room no longer closes cleanly. You could have a home inspector come out and look over your basement and foundation. The inspection report tells you that your home is settling and it won't become a serious problem for another twenty years. What if you had hired a Foundation Contractor who wanted to begin house leveling work the next door -- at a cost of thousands and thousands of dollars?
The opposite could also have been true - what if you decided to not have your home checked out, waited until the cracks and closing doors became worse, and then had to hire a foundation company in the emergency situation?
Hiring a home inspector is not very expensive. Depending on the area of the country, the size of the house, and how much needs to be inspected, it can cost anywhere from $150 to $500. Not a significant amount to give you a detailed survey and analysis of all that your home needs. And it's a great way to give you peace of mind -- no more surprises and less of a chance of those emergency payouts.
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